Francis Russell (Australia Curtin University)

Digital Media as Ambient Therapy

The Ecological Self between Resonance and Alienation

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Produktbeschreibung

Digital Media as Ambient Therapy explores the ways mental illness can emerge from our relationships (with ourselves, others, and the world), to address the concern around what kind of relationality is conducive for mental health and what role digital technologies can play in fostering such relationality.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 116
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 248g
• ISBN-13: 9781032101347
• ISBN-10: 1032101342
• Artikelnr.: 69793350

Autorenporträt

Francis Russell is an independent researcher and a trade union official based in Boorloo (Perth), Western Australia. He worked as a lecturer in cultural studies for over a decade, and is one of the founders of the School of Critical Arts, an independent organisation for the study of philosophy and contemporary art. He is the author of numerous peer-reviewed articles on the relationship between alienation, "mental illness," and neoliberalism. Along with artist David Attwood he co-edited the book The Art of Laziness: Contemporary Art and Post-Work Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1: From "Mental Illness" to "Environmental Illness"
Chapter 2: Mute Instruments and Resonant Relations
Chapter 3: The Agonies of Freedom and Control
Chapter 4: QAnon: From the Resonant to the Digitally Sublime
Conclusion